Queensrÿche - Tongue twister

Heavy metal band from
Bellevue, Washington, officially written as Queensrÿche.

Started as The Mob, until their manager more or less forced
them to choose a different name. It was to be Queensrÿche, allegedly inspired
by the title of the first song on their demo tape, Queen of the Reich (1981).

It
was not so much the band name as it was the y with the two dots that attracted
and still attract the attention. As one of the band members later stated: 'The
umlaut over the 'y' has haunted us for years. We spent eleven years trying to
explain how to pronounce it.'